Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-03-31
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past eight months were s54 2iiS, SG5, s9i7 ,601
less than during the corresponding period
Of the last fiscal year.
THE aggregate of hogs slaughtered in
Chicago during the twelve months ended
March !, was 4,426,OO0, or a decrease OF
sol, 600 as compared to one year ago. The
decrease is attributed to the stock yards
strike of last November. The number of
cattle slaughtered during the same period
was l,60S, 60 This shows an increase of
2G0, 600 head over any previous year.
A DISPATCH from London of the 23i re-
ported colliery explosion in New South
Wales by which seventy lives were lost.
AN attempt was made recently to assassi-
nate George S. Bailey, at Springfield, Ill.
He belonged to the Labor party, represent
ing East st. Louis in the Legislature, and
it was thought the attempt at assassina-
ton was made by anarchists, whom he
strongly opposed.
A CHILD was born recently at Bridge
port, Conn, with well developed ele-
plants head The mother had been ter
ribly frightened at circus.
ADvICEs from Suakim state that the Brit
ish war ship Albaco has captured two
slavers with a cargo of sixty slaves each,
going to Keddah.
THE Jackson family-father, mother and
two children-were drowned in the recent
food at Painted Woods, near Bismarck
Oak.
A CABLE has been received from Rome
announcing that the Pope, desiring to show
special honor to Most Rev. Archbishop Cor
rigan, has named him prelate assistant to
the Pontifical throne.
JOSEPH MOoRs, Andrew Carr and Patrick
Kelly, the striking firemen on the steam
ship Saratoga, pleaded guilty in the United
States Court at New York. Judge Brown
sentenced them to one months imprison-
ment each. The trouble occurred in the re-
cent strike
Both houses of the Virginia General AS
sembly have passed a bill legalizing $40 OOO,-
coo Of capital stock of the Richmond Il
West Point Terminal Company, heretofore
issued by said company.
A NUMBER of the discharged New York,
Pennsylvania 4 Ohio strikers applied to
other roads for positions but were told that
they could not be employed as they were
blacklisted. The men intend bringing suits
for damages against the New York, Penn
sylvania Il Ohio.
THE Indian who killed Lieutenant Mott
and wounded Frank Porter In Arizona has
been captured.
THE Crosby High License bill has been
passed by the New York Assembly
THE schooner George s. Richardson was
capsized in gale recently off the mouth of
Pungoteague creek, Chesapeake Bay. No
trace Of her crew could be found, and it
was supposed all on board were lost
The Cleary (boodle) jury at New York
has been discharged, having failed to agree
They stood six to six.
The open heart men employed at the
Linden steel works, Pittsburgh, Pa, struck
for an advance in wages This
forced the skilled work to close also and
the entire mill was shut down.
THE sale of the Stewart art gallery took
place at New York on the 23d
TWELVE miners were burned to death at
Bessemer, Mich, recently by the boarding
house of the Colby mine taking fire. The
occupants were asleep at the time. Some
few escaped by leaping from the windows
The police of st. Petersburg have discoy-
cred stores of dynamite and apparatus for
the manufacture Of bombs in several villas
at Pargstevos, summer resort in the sub
urbs of the Russian capital
ELEVEN Alsatians have been sent to pris-
on for six months for wearing tri-colored
THE President is embarrassed with not
fewer than twenty-seven applicants for the
vacant District judgeship, the salary Of
which is $500. The applicants come from
Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, New York,
Louisiana, Iowa, Virginia and Tennessee,
As well as from the District ITSELF
RELIABLE reports from the grazing dis
riots on the Rio Grande show that the
winter was very severe on sheep. Owing
70 the long drouth last fall grass was very
scarce and many thousands of sheep per-
shed from starvation. One firm alone re-
ported a loss Of $4,000 head. Coed rains
aave recently failed along the Rio Grande
MESSENGER j. S. MARTIN, of the Mount
Norris (N. j. Bank has made away with
:, 0OO entrusted to him to be changed into
small coin.
ELIZA BErsHoLE, q young lunatic con-
iued in the almshousc at Jeffersontown,
KY, was burned to death the other day
Turing the absence of her guard.
WILLIAM BATES, ex-Deputy United States
Marshal, killed his seventh man in Whit |
hey County, KY, on the 25th All of his /
1ictims had attacked him.